ProScan: Proscan Warning

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I went to look for a police call from August and man was i not happy to see almost all of my past calls gone. The program changed itself to self delete after 30 days so i lost at least a year of calls which i never wanted to lose. I am very upset one of the updates must have changed it to self delete because it was critical in a case where i wanted to save all calls that i could. It is not the first time Proscan has let me down. I wish i had a better option. I tried windows file recovery and it didn't recover the folders i needed.
 

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If you have at least 3 backups of data, you still don't have enough.

Recuva was offered as a solution earlier in this thread and it is a great recovery program, but you will have garbled file names a lot of the time. The data can be recovered so long as you did not trim your drives or use a secure delete too much since the loss.

But backup, backup, backup, backup. Your files are NEVER save in a single location. Ever.
 

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Bob's stellar reputation remains fully intact, despite one member's weak attempts to claim otherwise in this dumpster fire of a thread. In fact, I'm giving Bob a few bonus points for making me chuckle!

@ProScan rules, hands down the best scanner software out there, and it's not even close. Keep up the awesome work, sir!
 

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hate to resurrect this old thread, but it appears that the latest proscan update must have set the 30 day auto delete function, so I lost a bunch of recordings also just FYI. Just checked and the setting was on 30 days again. my bad for not checking the save box, though
 

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hate to resurrect this old thread, but it appears that the latest proscan update must have set the 30 day auto delete function, so I lost a bunch of recordings also just FYI. Just checked and the setting was on 30 days again. my bad for not checking the save box, though
No changes in that area in the longest time.
 

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not sure what happened then. I did delete some of the old installs around the same time (older versions) maybe that had something to do with it?
 

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not sure what happened then. I did delete some of the old installs around the same time (older versions) maybe that had something to do with it?
When installing a new version, it's best to just install it in an existing ProScan folder so the config, logging & recording data will be retained. No need to uninstall.
 

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yeah that's what I usually do and never had any issues, so not sure what I did wrong this time. love the program, though
 
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